Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to introduce bill to reform dairy pricing

6:38 PM,
Apr. 2, 2013

Kirsten Gillibrand

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If dairy pricing remains the way it is now, small dairy farms across New York state will be hardest hit, according to U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

"There's something wrong with dairy pricing in this country," the New York Democrat said Tuesday in a phone conference about the bill she and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, are introducing next week. Their Dairy Pricing Reform Act is one of several pieces of legislation Gillibrand is promoting in anticipation of a new Farm Bill.

Last year the Senate passed a five-year Farm Bill, but the House balked. ...